ON-SONG Glynn Tromans went within a whisker of breaking the course record as he powered to an impressive home victory in the NP Aerospace Midsummer 5-mile road race.

And the Coventry Godiva Harrier made it three wins in eight days when he followed up by leading the field home in the Carlton London 10km on Sunday.

Both wins came at the main expense of Coven-try-based Kenyan Stephen Ariga, who finished 11 seconds down in the midweek race at West-wood Heath before closing to within four seconds at Northwick Park.

Tromans, the UK cross-country and 10,000m track champion, missed John Mutai's best for the Coventry race - set in more favourable conditions - by five seconds as he pulled away from Ariga on the final hill to home home clear in 23-40.

Godiva runners filled the next two places, Richard Taylor (24-47) continuing his return to form in third and Matthew Lole (25-23) producing a tremendous run to set a new under-20 junior course record for fourth.

Garry Payne (George Eliot Striders) took sixth place in 26-35 to get the better of Godiva's Dave Long (27-17) in the veterans race, while Coven-try's Chris Ramsey (Tipton Harriers), 27-23, and Melanie Boon (Sphinx), 32-31, set new records for the under-17 men and under-20 women.

Boon finished sixth in the PowerGen-sponsored women's race won by Leamington C&AC's Sue Harrison (29-18), who came in 40th overall and was more than a minute and a half in front of her nearest section rival.

Northbrook's Paul Kelly (27-30) was leading over-50 man in 11th place, and the first veteran woman finisher was Suzy Tawney (32-11) of Leamington.

Steve Hollier (Wolver-hampton & Bilston) came out on top in the incorporated walking race in a fast time of 34-29 after a three-way scrap with fellow Great Britain internationals, Nuneaton's Andy Penn and Andi Drake of Godiva Harriers.

The 24-year-old finished eleven seconds clear of Penn with Drake a surther six seconds down in third place after a keen-ly-contested tussle.

Godiva's Mike Smith, the British champion at 50 km, took fourth place in a respectable 36-20, while Guy Jackson (39-49) showed a welcome return to fitness.

Godiva's Karen Ratcliffe (43-15) finished second in the women's race.

Wheelchair athlete Geoff Allen (25-08), of Stratford AC, was well to the fore throughout.

The overall race drew a huge field of more than 350 and again there were many personal bests over a three-lap course condusive to fast times with more down slopes than up culminating in an athlete-friendly half-mile drop to the finish.

The eight-to-14 years Fun Run was won for the second year by Trevor-Lee Betts, of Leamington, in 6-57 which represented a 27-second improvement over the accurately measured 2km grassland course.

Michael Bergin (Sphinx) finished second overall , and first in his age group, while Melissa Harvey (Saracens) led the girls field in 7-51, beating Sally Grimley (Godiva) by 12 seconds.